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we are fully of the mind brothers that if you willturn your attention to the cultivation of the Earth toraising the different kinds of grain, to building comfort-table dwelling houses for your families, to raising usefulanimals, amongst others sheep for the advantage of thewool in making cloathing, to raising flax and hempfor your linen, and your Young women learn tospin and weave, that your lives will be much easierand happyer than at present, that you will be muchless exposed to diseases, and that your numbers willincrease and not diminuish. As we before observedbrothers your Land is good, it is far better than theland the white people cultivate near the great waterwe are persuaded that your land will produce dou-ble the quantity of any kind of grain, of flax of hempwith the same labour that is necessary near thegreat water BrothersWe shall now finish what wehave to say with informing you that all the cornand other productions of the Earth, which our brotherPhilip Dennis may raise we wish our red brethren toaccept of as a token of our friendship and it is ourdesire that the chiefs of the Pottowattomie and MiamiNations who are now present added to our brothersthe Five Medals, Tuthinepee and Philip Dennis, makesuch distribution of the same as they may think proper After which the Little Turtle made a replywhich was taken down in short hand as delivered and